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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Celebrate National Bike Month with Bikes on Buses!

May is National Bike Month and HART makes connecting to the bus by
riding a bike a breeze!

All HART buses and HARTFlex vans have bike racks!

Discover how easy (and quick!) it is to Bike & Bus.
HART has bike racks on every bus and van, and you can experience the ease of
riding HART with your bike year round. Why not use National Bike Month to give
it a try? Bike-friendly transit provides commuters with increased options to
travel, and also expands transit ridership.

At HART, we're dedicated to getting our riders to their
destination as quickly and efficiently as possible. We see bikes as supplemental
to our service and that's why we added racks to our buses and rubber-wheeled
trolleys almost 20 years ago. More recently, bike racks have also been added to
all of our HARTFlex vans.

Need a bike just for the first or last mile of your trip?
Coast Bike Share stations are set up at a number of HART locations, including
Marion Transit Center, and Dick Greco Plaza.

Have a folding bike? HART also permits them in carrying bags
aboard all HART buses and HARTFlex vans. Users of bicycles with larger wheels
should continue using the bicycle rack. Each HART bus and HARTFlex van
accommodates two bicycles. Only single-seat, two-wheel bicycles are permitted
on buses; no tandems or three-wheelers.

Heading to Pinellas? The Bikes on Buses program also enables
riders to take their bikes with them and transfer from a HART bus to a PSTA bus
without a special permit.

Four easy steps to loading your bike on a HART bus

Bike riders might not view a 30-mile round trip bike ride to
downtown as an attractive commute. However, pair a quick 1-2 mile bike ride
with a HART route to pick up the majority of the miles and you have some
serious pedal power.

Cycling HART riders (almost 20,000 trips last month) find
that bikes not only speed up their commutes, but also provide them greater
exercise, ground coverage, and route options.